Lucknow, May 2: The listing of Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar in the list of "global terrorists" by the UN Security Council would be used by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to reap electoral gains, alleged Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati. Her remarks came a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi credited his government's relentless diplomacy for the major crackdown on terror emanating from Pakistan.

"Earlier BJP government made Masood Azhar a guest and later freed him abroad, now at the time of elections they are trying to gather votes on his name, it is condemnable," she said, while recalling the 1999 Kandahar plane hijacking incident which forced the then Vajpayee government to release Azhar from India's captivity. PM Modi Terms Ban on Masood Azhar as 'Big Victory For India in Fight Against Terrorism'

The UN committee listed Azhar on May 1, 2019 as being associated with al-Qaeda for "participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing, or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf of, or in support of", "supplying, selling or transferring arms and related material to", "recruiting for", "otherwise supporting acts or activities of", and "other acts or activities indicating association with" the JeM.

A UNSC designation will subject Azhar to an assets freeze, travel ban and an arms embargo. An assets freeze under the sanctions committee requires that all states freeze without delay the funds and other financial assets or economic resources of designated individuals and entities.

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